Case/Article Review 7

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‘’A facial surgeon has been struck off the medical register to "protect the public" after harming his patients. Roger Bainton carried out dozens of unnecessary operations and "experimental procedures" while working at Royal Stoke University Hospital from 2005 to 2013.

In the 1990s he was severely reprimanded by the General Medical Council over a death in Scotland.Lawyers are asking why he was ever hired by the Staffordshire hospital.

The surgeon rebuilt the faces of assault or accident victims. A report by the Royal College of Surgeons showed in some cases he used an unproven and experimental bone substitute, called DBX, to treat damaged and fractured eye sockets. He also carried out "unnecessary surgery" on people with jaw injuries, it said.

A Medical Practitoners' Council panel concluded: "Mr Bainton routinely persisted in attempting surgery rather than adopting conservative treatment and repeatedly undertook procedures which were not clinically indicated."